Español > espia: 1 sentido > nombre 1, person | Sentido | (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors. |
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| Sinónimos | agente secreto, espía |
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| Categoría | ejército, FAS, fuerzas armadas, las fuerzas armadas | The military forces of a nation |
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| Casos | Margarete Gertrud Zelle, Mata Hari | Dutch dancer who was executed by the French as a German spy in World War I (1876-1917) |
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| Específico | agente de espionaje | someone employed to spy on another country or business competitor |
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| agente doble | A spy who works for two mutually antagonistic countries |
| agente doble, contraespía, counterspy, informante, topo | A spy who works against enemy / enemy espionage |
| agente exterior, agente extranjero, espía | A spy for a foreign country |
| infiltrado | someone who takes up a position surreptitiously for the purpose of espionage |
| General | agente de inteligencia, agente operativo, agente secreto | A person secretly employed in espionage for a government |
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| Inglés | spy, undercover agent |
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| Catalán | agent secret, espia |
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| Verbos | espiar, fisgonear | watch, observe, or inquire secretly |
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| espiar | Secretly collect sensitive or classified information |
